The poems that appear in this volume are presented as if they were written by Hutchinson, without any mention or credit given to other authors. However, it is clear that several of the poems were not written by Hutchinson, and there are doubts over a number of others. The poem 'I Want to Go Home' (p. 20 ) was written by Thomas Cosgrove (1860-1928), an American soldier who served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War of 1898-1902. It was published at least as early as 1905; the poem 'The Kid Has Gone to the Colours' (p. 24) was written by the American journalist William Herschell (1873-1939), and was published in his selection, The Kid Has Gone to the Colors and Other Verses (1917); the poem 'The Peace of Victory' (pp. 4-5) appeared in the Auckland Star in 1919, where it was attributed to Ernest Aldridge, a New Zealand author. Then there are a number of other poems which were published in Soldiers' Poems [1917], by Charles Townsend O'Neill. One of these poems, 'A Call to Australians' was published in the Sydney Mail in May 1916, where the author's name was given as 'Miles Vinctus'.
